Job description
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Job overview
Join our Healthcare Assistants’ Assessment Day at Hinchingbrooke Hospital to learn about us, our activity, and our career pathways and to secure a future career with us.
The Assessment Day will take place on Saturday the 30th of September between 09:00-14:00 and it will give you the great opportunity to:
- Meet our teams who will support and guide you throughout the day, as well as after you join us as an employee.
- Learn more about the training, development and further career opportunities we offer.
- Get first-hand experience on a day in a life of a healthcare assistant, their duties and responsibility.
- Take a tour of your future workplace.
- Attend a formal interview and leave with a job offer if successful.
In preparation for the event, please make sure that you bring with you aPHOTO IDandPROOF OF RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK.
If you consider a career as a healthcare assistant, please confirm your attendance by submitting an application form.
Join #TeamNWAngliaFT and start a successful career with us!
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be passionate about improving the life of our patients while demonstrating a flexible approach and excellent communication skills. You will show a respectful, caring, and compassionate attitude in your daily duties.
All the roles are permanent and offered on a full-time and part-time basis. Flexible working opportunities would be considered where possible.
Typical shift patterns are 07:00 - 19:30 and 19:00 - 07:30, across all seven days of the week (including bank holidays).
Your daily duties will be performed under the kind supervision of our registered staff. The main duties may include:
- Personal care, food, personal hygiene and overall reassurance, comfort, and safety.
- Help patients move around.
- Learn about individuals' specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate way.
- Maintain a safe, clean, and enjoyable clinical environment to live and work in.
- Communicate to patients and their families.
- Manage stock levels for linen and other supplies.
We are committed to ensure a work-life balance to all our staff by offering full time and part time roles, flexible working hours on a shift pattern to fit around your family life.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and candidates form our local communities.
Benefits to you
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
- NHS Pension Scheme:
- Flexible working opportunities;
- Increased hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
- Career development and training;
- Wellbeing support and activities;
- In-house physiotherapy Service;
- On-site canteens with subsidised meals;
- Subsidised staff parking (currently free).
- Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough